Laura Murphy

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

SKILLS

ABOUT LAURA MURPHY

As someone who has always loved learning new skills and building things from scratch, whether it be making a piece of jewellery for a friend’s birthday, learning how to upcycle furniture or putting together a cupboard from Ikea, I’ve always found satisfaction in completing hands-on, creative projects. With a successful career in book publishing, I found myself wanting to be more creative and found inspiration from people who I knew that were learning to code and building websites of their own. I went along to meet-ups, took some online courses and came to the decision to join the General Assembly Software Engineering Immersive to switch careers and embark on a journey in web development. Excited by the prospects ahead, the notes in my phone quickly became filled with ideas for apps and websites.Before joining the course, I spent 18 months in a digital venture support role to assimilate myself with the tech industry, working with product managers, engineers and designers where I gained invaluable knowledge about the lifecycle of a start-up and the world of technology in general. I believe that true learning is being creative and I look forward to being able to continue my career of learning and growing my skills in web development. My skills now include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, React, Node.js, Mongoose, MongoDB, Express, AJAX, PostgreSQL, Bulma, Git, GitHub, RESTful APIs